Meter



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me am? I arm boron neli 5 New Yer inve or attained Before the gearing is put in place it is coated With a snitabi'e adhering lubricant, preferably somewhat viscous and heavy and it has been found that such lubricant, when protected in the manner described against the wash of water currents, continues to be eti'ective for a very long time.

I claim as my invention:

1. In. a meter, the combination of an integral casing having a top plate and forming a disc chamber with water inlet and water outlet, a gear train, a frame suspended from said top plate and supporting the gear train in the casing, amt a bottom plate imper'forate except for a shaft opening formed with :1 depending and out-turned flange which forms with the casing a joint which is permeable but not suflicient to perneeaari mit the foi'mation of Washing currents of Water about the gear tram.

2. In a meter the combination of an integral casing having a top plate and formmg a disc chamber with Water inlet and Water outlet, a gear train, a frame suspended from said top plate and supporting the gear train in the casing, a bottom plate imperforate except for a shaft opening secured to said frame and having a depending and outturnecl flange, and a gasket supported by the out-turned flange and forming "with the casing a joint which is permeable but not sufficient to permit the formation of washing currents about the gear train.

This specification signed this 1st day of March, A. D. 1921.

WILLIAM L. MARDEN. 

